DISCLAIMER: My thinking has become fuzzy. I have noticed that while I'm engaged in normal conversation that I have begun spacing out and forgetting the actual topic of the conversation. This makes it hard to, um, be a normal socially functioning adult. And I'm now having to focus massive amounts of energy on face-to-face conversation, and that's wiping me out. So I don't want to think coherently for blog posts most days, to make a long story short. Thus, I've introduced a new post called Things I Thought About Today, so during days when I'm having an especially hard time functioning and keeping focused, I can still blog. Please don't expect full sentences, correct grammar or anything coherent or fluid when you see this posting title.
1. Every day I go for a big power walk because for some reason it makes me feel almost weightless and super powerful. Weird? Yup? Wonderful nonetheless? You betcha.
And every day, as I venture down our street, the same guy a few houses down is out watering his flowers. Every day, he smiles at me and says "Hey, you're still pregnant!"
Every day, I smile and say something polite in return.
But, on the inside, every day I want to shout. "No kidding! I figured that out when I had to call a forklift to get me outta my freakin' bed this morning/couldn't properly reach a too-long toe nail with the nail clippers because my belly was in the way/put on two mismatching flip flops and didn't notice until the toddler pointed it out!"
I don't think men get it.
2. And about walking ... I also take pride in the fact that I still don't have a waddle at 37.5 weeks, and I still walk faster than 99 percent of the non-pregnant women in this neighborhood. Yes, I notice those things; yes, it makes me feel better; yes, I realize that's really lame. But let me have my cake and eat it, too, since I can't really, you know, eat real cake right now.
3. Tonight the toddler became insanely crabby insanely early. I was getting sick of him climbing on me the way he climbs on giant statues at the zoo, so I told him to go upstairs with daddy and start reading his Bible. My husband scooped up the kid and two other people finished the sentence I began, "Mommy will be upstairs in --"
The toddler: "Two minutes."
The husband: "Never."
Nice.
4. This picture can speak for itself:
Good for you for getting out there power walking. When I was that far along in my pregnancy the only walking I did was from the couch to the fridge to the couch to the bed to the fridge. Repeat.
ReplyDeletewhen is your due date?
ReplyDeleteI am in total awe that you are still power walking at 37 weeks. I hope I can have as much energy as you do when I reach that stage of my pregnancy.
ReplyDeleteYou are amazing that you are still power walking! I wish I had that much energy now :) Love that toddler photo!!
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